Announcing that it was his first public meeting to be held in a state due for polls, following the election commission’s official announcement on October 4, Modi spoke at length on regional and local issues.

"There was a series of state-funded inaugurations (of schemes and projects) here. The market faced a shortage of scissors. Those who were thieving for five years were busy cutting ribbons," he said while launching a tirade against the state government. Before the tens of thousands gathered at Maharana Bhupal stadium in Udaipur, Modi questioned the safety of women in the state, capitalising on former Congress minister Babulal Nagar's arrest on Friday by the CBI for allegedly raping a 35-year-old woman.

"If no mother, sister or daughter can go visit a minister (for getting a grievance addressed) in his office, how can the government be expected to protect them?" he asked.

In his rebuttal to Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi on the issue of communalism, he sought to turn the mirror on the state government. Bringing up the record of chief minister Ashok Gehlot-led state government on maintaining law and order, Modi claimed there have been 28 riots and 80 clashes between communities during Gehlot's rule and that the country's Minority commission had also come down heavily on the state government.

"If their (Congress-backed) Minority commission does not trust their government, do you wish to do it?" was the quickly delivered rhetorical question. Keeping in view the Mewad-Vaghad region's — of which Udaipur is a part — large concentration of tribal communities, Modi cited state governor Margaret Alva's criticism of the state's performance in delivering services to these communities.

The Gujarat chief minister mocked Rahul's claim about Pakistani intelligence services being in touch with some Muslim youth from Muzzafarnagar saying it was one police officer from Rajasthan who was hoping to get an MLA ticket from Congress who misled him.

On the Gandhi scion's intimate descriptions of coming to terms with terror attacks on his family Modi said, "They have realised that Indians love to watch serials with family drama on TV, so he was been putting up an elaborate family drama in his speeches." Udaipur district is traditionally known to vote out incumbent MLAs.